Miun Gleeson tells Newsweek why taking antidepressants helped her parenting in this original essay.
I spent a full year navigating my way through many not-quite-right therapists and brands of medication, until I finally landed on the game changer that is my daily dose of Prozac.
I have even taken the baton as the"fun parent" every once in a while. Pre-Prozac, I was merely a facilitator on the sidelines of fun—a planner and photographer. I also took seriously my role of fun police, stepping in to break up any merriment because:"Someone's going to get hurt." These days, I may honor requests to take the winding, bumpier route home and agree that some days simply call for frozen yogurt as a meal.
I don't think twice now about the things it took to unearth this version of myself. Prozac works in partnership with all the things in my toolkit that get me through the exquisite yet exquisitely hard days of parenting, from solo trips to my favorite grocery store, peppermint essential oils, happy thoughts, a box of Girl Scout cookies just for me and shameless reality television shows.
The things I say to my children are things I reinforce within myself: Everyone is going through something. There's nothing shameful about mental health issues. There's nothing wrong with me that medicine needs to fix.
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